The Home of Concepts’ newest is one thing that certainly may diplomatically be described as an “thought:” Marvel has confirmed after a short interval of teasing that Spider-Man hasn’t gotten sufficient consideration for all of the fallacious causes recently.
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After releasing a shadowed teaser picture earlier this week ominously heralding the return of “The Most Infamous Spider-Man Story Ever Instructed,” right this moment Marvel comics explicitly confirmed in a preview included with this week’s Superb Spider-Man #31 (through Popverse) the arrival of a sequel to The Evening Gwen Stacy Died.
Wait, sorry, that’s not proper. Essentially the most infamous Spider-Man story ever instructed? A sequel to One Extra Day? That’s not proper both. Sins Previous? Nope. Clone Saga? They already did that, a number of occasions. Superior Spider-Man? They’ve already introduced that one.
No, essentially the most infamous Spider-Man story ever instructed, this time at the least, is Spider-Man: Reign, a 2006 miniseries written and illustrated by Kaare Andrews. Set 30 years into the way forward for Marvel Comics’ ever-fluid timeline, Reign is for essentially the most half a reasonably forgettable story about an outdated, traumatized Peter Parker donning the masks as soon as extra to turn out to be Spider-Man and navigate this grim, dystopian near-future. Why folks truly keep in mind Reign is within the opening moments of its third situation, the place a grief-stricken Peter cradles the decaying physique of Mary Jane Watson, his deceased spouse, and divulges that the most cancers she died of was partially introduced on by contact together with his radioactive bodily fluids, together with, sure, particularly, those he used within the act of “loving” her.
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It’s as ridiculous as it’s an especially gross observe within the lengthy and peculiar historical past of Marvel editorial’s up-and-down relationship with the idea of a married Peter Parker. And now, it’s again! Marvel was even good sufficient to incorporate Mary Jane within the announcement teaser, though fortunately extra as a ghost-like determine as an alternative of a literal corpse wrapped round Spider-Man’s neck.
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Pretty! No additional particulars have been confirmed about Reign 2, apart from that it’s set to reach a while in 2024. It comes at a time when the primary Spider-Man ongoing has been beneath hearth just lately for a storyline that noticed Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, killed in motion after showing within the collection as a minor supporting character. She bought higher, as a result of comics, however folks had been nonetheless rightfully aggravated that one among Marvel’s largest success tales of the twenty first century obtained a largely pointless “shock” loss of life (the small print leaked nicely upfront, placing Marvel on the again foot) within the pages of a largely unrelated character’s collection. Now the controversy is able to transfer on to one thing else, it could appear.
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